Interview and Italian Book Covers

Andrew Billen interviewed Bret for The Times Online and I realized that I never posted it to the site. Included in the interview is the first definitive statements I've seen about who Michael Wade Kaplan was (the book is dedicated to him and Bret's father). As per usual though, the best is saved for last when Bret is asked about the scene in the book where he inherits all his father's suits only to find that the crotches are blood covered from a botched penile implant.

Assure me, I say, that that detail was made up. "No," he (Ellis) says. "That one's true." I blanch. "Sorry," he says, "you wanted to know."

Also, thanks to a comment left by Davidian in another thread, we now know what the Italian cover for Lunar Park looks like (pictured above). Its not bad, but certainly not great.

The Italian cover's for Bret's other books are after the jump.



From the same site, here are the covers for Bret's other books (again The Informers is missing - was it not released in Europe?)

October 14, 2005
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Category: Lunar Park
Comments: 6 (closed)

Previous Comments

i like that cover better than the american one

in Italy "the informers" it is published from bompiani (not einaudi) with the
title "acqua dal sole" I think "water from the sun" ....

The Rules of Attraction cover looks like Los Angeles or something... kinda off with that one!

yes, it means "water from the sun". I don't know why the title was changed. It was the same for Jay McInerney's "Bright lights big city", which was changed into "Le mille luci di New York"("The thousand lights of NY").
"the informers" is one of my favourite things by bret, am I wrong?
cheers
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my preferred one in absolute is Glamorama.. and hour my copy also is autographed! it is sacred..

My favourite cover is definitely Less than zero. I thinik it's perfect, while The informers (acqua dal sole), it's from another publishing house which made an horrible cover.